10. Testimony of Elizabeth Hubbard v. Sarah Osburn | The deposition of Elizabeth Hubbard, aged about seventeen years, who
testifies and says that on the 27th of February 1692, I saw the apparition of Sarah
Osburn, the wife of Alexander Osburn, who did most grievously torture me by pricking and
pinching me most dreadfully, and so she continued hurting me most grievously until the
first of March 1692, being the day of her examination being first
of March, and then also Sarah Osburn did torture me most grievously by pinching
and pricking me most dreadfully, and also several times since, Sarah Osburn has
afflicted me and urged me to write in her book.
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Modernized transcription by Margo Burns, 3/8/13: Editorial Principles |
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